For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, here's a Black-Necked Stilt. Longest legs to body size apart from flamingos.

Sandhill Cranes. #birdoftheday#texture

I've shared other images of this little immature oak titmouse. I guess I just can't get enough. #BirdOfTheDay #StaringRightAtYou #photography #BirdPhotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SingForYourSupper. This California Towhee is happy to oblige.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsWideOpen. Here's a gull soaring over the canals of Venice, Italy.

The theme of this week's #BlueSkyArtShow is #Morning. This photo was taken somewhere in Florida.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage. Here's a wee immature oak titmouse (I think). I previously shared a similar shot with a different view, but he is irresistible from any angle. #birds #photography

I have a gardening joke, but it's a little dirty.

I don't know exactly where this photo was taken. Somewhere in the Ithaca area. Great colors and reflections. Anyone recognize the location? #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForReflections #FallColors #Ithaca #FingerLakes

Today's #birdoftheday theme is #raptors. I think this pair of birds that just decided to hang out on our fence for a bit might be immature Cooper's Hawks. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme‬ is #EFGH, birds who have any of these letters at the beginning of any part of their name. So here's a hummingbird (of the Anna's persuasion) exploring iochroma flowers. #birds #photography

I think this little guy is an immature oak titmouse. What a cutey! #SmallbirdSaturday #LittleBirds #BlueSkyArtShow #soft

For #WaterfallWednesday, here's a view of the gorge at Watkins Glen. #FingerLakes

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #LowFlying. Here's a robust Greater White-fronted Goose that appears to be struggling to get airborn.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs. Here are a couple of colorful macaws. Seen in Antigua, #Guatemala.

Baby Doormouse! This image won first place in the Wildlife Comedy Awards, London.

View from Queen's House, Greenwich. Named for Queen Anne of Denmark, who commissioned the building from architect Inigo Jones, it introduced classical architecture in England. #alphabetchallenge #WeekQforQueen #Greenwich #photography

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Parenthood, so here's a nice #swan family group seen on the Saône River in Lyon, France. #birds #photography

First #watercolor in a while. Western Bluebird. Planning a series of four in this style. #ArtYear

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PassportPhoto. I think this White-crowned Sparrow will get by passport control easily.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches -- birds and flowers. I don't have a lot of photos that fit this theme, but I do have an American Robin in a bottlebrush plant. Have had trouble uploading this post for some reason.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD, so here's a Cathartes aura (Turkey Vulture). These large birds have amazing scent organs and can smell decaying meat at a great distance. This one had detected a dead opossum, half buried under leaves.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #FeederFriends -- birds you might see at your feeder. Google thinks this is an American Goldfinch, but I think it might be a Lesser Goldfinch. Would anyone like to weigh in?

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LeafandLight. I think this is an immature Lesser Goldfinch, perching on a Pineapple Guave (feijoa) tree in my back yard.

Macro photo of emerging Buddha-hand Citron fruits. #MacroMonday

Today I have a couple of Northern Pintails for your enjoyment. That's because the #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #JKLMNOP, any bird that has any of these letters at the beginning of their first or second names. Such a handsome couple!

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is ##LongNecks. So here's a mellow snow goose, just hanging out.

A Western Bluebird seen at Point Pinole in the San Francisco Bay Area. I think it meets the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Woodlands.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButt. So here's a dabbling duck doing its thing. #birds

Saw these handsome plants at Blake Garden in Berkeley the other day. I think they are Leucadendron discolor 'Pom Pom', also known as the Pom Pom Conebush. I like them. #flowers #gardens #bloomscrolling

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Red&Black. Maybe this ‪Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata) qualifies. It's got a lot going on -- but there's some red and black there. #Birds #BirdPhotography #photography #duck

For the #birdoftheday theme of the #riverbank, here's an Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca), seen on the banks of the Thames at Eton. Despite its name it's a kind of duck, not a goose. It was introduced into England as an ornamental bird for parks and estates in the 17th century.

For today's #birdoftheday theme of #largebirdsinflight how about these snow geese at Llano Seco near Chico in #NorthernCalifornia. #birds #birdphotography #photography

The #BirdofTheDay theme is #snacks (birds eating). I like the long tongue on this Anna's Hummingbird, enjoying some native baccharis. #NorthernCalifornia #hummingbird #baccharis #photography

‪The #BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #BestOfTheMonth, but I was not especially active in March for health reasons. I guess I would go with this Red-Tailed Hawk. #bird #birdphotography #hawk

The #ColorADay color for today is #PinkMon. This is a magnolia flower, seen at the #SanFrancisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park.

Does this bird have #ruffledfeathers? Let's say it does, because that's todays' #BirdOfTheDay theme. It's a Chinese silk chicken, seen at the departed and lamented Annie's Annuals in Richmond, #NorthernCalifornia. #birds #photography #chicken

I think this dramatic flower is a kind of tulip. Seen at Kew Gardens, #London. #flowers #bloomscrolling #tulip #photography #ColorADay #OrangeSun

View from Mount Pilatus, near Lucerne, #Switzerland. #Stunday #mountains #photography

Another one for #BirdOfTheDay the alt theme is #oneleg -- any bird standing on one leg. So here are some flamingos at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak. Here's a House Finch with something to say.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #tricolor. Maybe this Northern Shoveler Duck qualifies. Maybe.

El Drac, ink, watercolor, and gouache. El Drac is the mosaic lizard at the main entrance to Park Guell in Barcelona. Can you see it? Its open mouth is on the right. #AnimalArtTuesday #Barcelona #watercolor #ArtByThomasChristensen

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Preeners&Scratchers, and I didn't think I had anything for that. Then I found this Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), which I saw in Hong Kong in 2003.

Pretty cat. He notices the camera, studies it, & decides it's not aggressive.

You go, Coco!

Flor Garduño, photographe mexicaine renommée pour ses images poétiques et oniriques, mêlant traditions indigènes, nature et symbolisme, notamment à travers ses séries emblématiques comme Bestiaire et Tristes Tropiques. #photographie #FlorGarduño

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Migratory. Like these snow geese, seen Jan. 14 at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. They leave #California in late February or early March for their Arctic breeding grounds. #birds #BirdPhotography #geese

The #BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #lookingatme. A couple of days ago, this male Red-tailed Hawk, preparing to nest, was checking me out. #birdphotography #birds #hawk #photography #stern

"To the Issei," basalt sculpture by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) at the Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center Plaza in Los Angeles. Issei ("first generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in the Americas. #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone #scupture #Issei #IsamuNoguchi #LosAngeles